Re: Uncompleted Railways

["Barry Campbell" <campblbm@ozemail.com.au>]

Garry Hoddinett wrote in message <7r2rn2$2q9k$1@otis.netspace.net.au>...
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>Barry Campbell <campblbm@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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>> This one was actually Casino - Bonalbo. The Bonalbo construction >siding
>existed as a ballast loading siding south of the river in Casino >for many
>years and may well still be there.
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>Was this railway to run from Tabulam to Bonalbo?  When I drove along the
>Bruxner Highway a few years ago I thought I could see the formation
>ascending the hills to the east of Tabulam out of the Clarence River
valley.
>A more direct route from Casino to Bonalbo could have skipped Tabulam.
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>Do you know how far the earthworks got on the Guyra - Dorrigo railway?
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No the Casino - Bonalbo line was reasonably direct and went no where near
Tabulam. Earthworks went at least as far as Piora (across my uncle's farm)
but did not get all the way to Bonalbo.


They Guyra - Dorrigo line got as far as 15? km of earthworks only. You can
easily see the beginning of this proposed line where it would have crossed
the New England Hwy north of Guyra station.


Barry Campbell